| Comment Number: | OL-10507845 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 3:30:49 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
PL 108-136 requires any new system to be 'contemporary.' The labor relations and performance management concepts defined in the FRN are, however, remarkably regressive. By proposing to silence frontline employees and the unions that represent them, the Agencies appear to have decided that employees and their unions can make no contribution to the accomplishment of the essential mission of protecting the national security and defense. This backwards-thinking approach is at odds with contemporary concepts of labor relations.